Quotes About Rule

Might was the measure of right.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

For Obama, 'rule of law' is merely his political silly-putty.

We are a country based on the rule of law.

Scales are not allowed in my house.

We don't have a no-dessert rule, but we do have a no-bad-ingredient rule. Everything from scratch.

Being a lawyer, it's like holding a key card to a parallel dimension of rule sets in the world, and it's lovely to make sure that key continues to work and to continue to brush up on the law every so often.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

I know the rule. I know law. I know economics. I know parliament. That's an explosive combination.

I'm the fifth president of Haiti to rule without a parliament.

One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

Beyond a certain threshold, power erases embarrassment

As your confidence in the API increases, then you flesh it out. But the fundamental rule is, write the code that uses the API before you write the code that implements it.

As a rule he had found it useful as well as prudent to trust his fellow man to do the right thing only when the wrong thing failed to present itself.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead.

We mortals can be fools, especially when mortal emotions rule over cool reason.

Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detailed rule, on the other hand, will almost always favor one group over another. p. 34

We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.

The facts must rule philosophy, not philosophy the facts.

I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.

There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.